Apple's Beats brand in April unveiled the Powerbeats Pro, a redesigned wire-free version of its popular fitness-oriented Powerbeats earbuds.
Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac Comes With High Sierra Support and Touch Bar Integration
Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac got its official release on Tuesday. The thirteenth version of the Windows virtualization software comes with numerous new features including support for macOS High Sierra and the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
Top of the features list is Touch Bar support, enabling owners of compatible MacBook Pros to use the OLED strip with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as additional integration for the Windows Start Menu and Desktop, including Cortana, Task View, and Taskbar pinned elements. A Touch Bar Wizard also allows users to customize the Touch Bar and add their favorite Windows applications.
New dynamic resolution support mean users can change the window size of their Windows session, with booting and rebooting speed said to be faster and smoother as a result. Meanwhile, enhanced support for Retina displays should see better scaling of Windows applications on Mac screens.
A new Picture-in-Picture mode aims to let users monitor their virtual machine with ease, while support for the upcoming Windows 10 People Bar promises to allow users to view recent contacts in the Windows Taskbar or Mac Dock.
More generally, Parallels claims over 47 percent faster access to Windows files and documents compared to the previous version, faster file transfers over USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt SSD devices, and up to 32 vCPU and 128GB vRAM per virtual machine with Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition, with code for all new versions optimized for macOS High Sierra (10.13) and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
Elsewhere, Parallels claims over 30 new additional tools can be found in version 13 that simplify everyday tasks on Mac and Windows. They include a drive cleaner, video conversion, a file archiver, a GIF creator, a video downloader, Do Not Sleep and Do Not Disturb modes, a Lock Screen, and the ability to temporarily hide files on the desktop, amongst many others.
Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac costs $79.99 for a new license. Existing users of Parallels Desktop for Home and Student can upgrade to V13 for $49.99, with a time-limited offer enabling users of the Desktop Pro Edition to upgrade for the same price (usually $99.99). For more pricing details, see the Parallels website.
(Thanks, Ulric!)
Top of the features list is Touch Bar support, enabling owners of compatible MacBook Pros to use the OLED strip with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as additional integration for the Windows Start Menu and Desktop, including Cortana, Task View, and Taskbar pinned elements. A Touch Bar Wizard also allows users to customize the Touch Bar and add their favorite Windows applications.
New dynamic resolution support mean users can change the window size of their Windows session, with booting and rebooting speed said to be faster and smoother as a result. Meanwhile, enhanced support for Retina displays should see better scaling of Windows applications on Mac screens.
A new Picture-in-Picture mode aims to let users monitor their virtual machine with ease, while support for the upcoming Windows 10 People Bar promises to allow users to view recent contacts in the Windows Taskbar or Mac Dock.
More generally, Parallels claims over 47 percent faster access to Windows files and documents compared to the previous version, faster file transfers over USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt SSD devices, and up to 32 vCPU and 128GB vRAM per virtual machine with Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition, with code for all new versions optimized for macOS High Sierra (10.13) and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
Elsewhere, Parallels claims over 30 new additional tools can be found in version 13 that simplify everyday tasks on Mac and Windows. They include a drive cleaner, video conversion, a file archiver, a GIF creator, a video downloader, Do Not Sleep and Do Not Disturb modes, a Lock Screen, and the ability to temporarily hide files on the desktop, amongst many others.
Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac costs $79.99 for a new license. Existing users of Parallels Desktop for Home and Student can upgrade to V13 for $49.99, with a time-limited offer enabling users of the Desktop Pro Edition to upgrade for the same price (usually $99.99). For more pricing details, see the Parallels website.
(Thanks, Ulric!)
[ 81 comments ]
Top Rated Comments
(View all)
25 months ago
That moment you look at the Mac UI with the windows UI nested inside of it and realise you'd rather look at windows
you are joking right? so much inconsistencies and misalignments in windows 10 to even like anything about its interface!
25 months ago
Parallels and Vmware have become the Mac's yearly tax.
Well, goodbye to them - Virtualbox is fine for my needs, the only reason left for Parallels/Vmware was the ability to use the Bootcamp install but the Win10 licensing is broken and they never fixed it. This time I'll just stick to Bootcamp or VB. I could even buy a second Win10 license and have both, it will repay itself in a couple of years anyway, but I don't really need it atm.
Well, goodbye to them - Virtualbox is fine for my needs, the only reason left for Parallels/Vmware was the ability to use the Bootcamp install but the Win10 licensing is broken and they never fixed it. This time I'll just stick to Bootcamp or VB. I could even buy a second Win10 license and have both, it will repay itself in a couple of years anyway, but I don't really need it atm.
25 months ago
Sometimes I wish Apple would slow down the new version releases so these companies didn't have an excuse for the annual upgrade shakedown.
25 months ago
Video conversion, file archiver, GIF creator, video downloader... I just wish my Parallels Windows 10 VM would not flicker all the time.
25 months ago
That moment you look at the mac UI with the windows UI nested inside of it and realise you'd rather look at windows
25 months ago
Unfortunately for me, I still have to use Windows sometimes. I've never liked the aesthetic, going back to Windows 2.0.
My favorite UI was NeXT, and there is a poor copy available to layer over Linux if you want, but that's not for getting stuff done in the real world.
OS X, or whatever it's called now, is OK. I wish they'd get rid of the title bars though at the top of the screen and put everything back into the dock and program spaces. The bar at the top was great in 1984. Now, not so much, especially on a big screen.
Bar at the top can be hidden in macOS.
25 months ago
That moment you look at the mac UI with the windows UI nested inside of it and realise you'd rather look at windows
....you reach for the gun?
Or
....you realise you should have gone to spec savers?
25 months ago
Every time theres a new macos they change again why cant they just do free upgrade to existing users
25 months ago
This update is ridiculous imho
There was a time, when they had improvements in graphics and overall performance with two digit numbers
Not worth the price despite using parallels since version 8 and therefore I'm a parallels fan (but the last versions bring only support for new windows and macOS versions)
There was a time, when they had improvements in graphics and overall performance with two digit numbers
Not worth the price despite using parallels since version 8 and therefore I'm a parallels fan (but the last versions bring only support for new windows and macOS versions)
[ Read All Comments ]
After a busy few weeks of news and rumors, things slowed down a little bit this week, but there were still some major stories worth highlighting. Those include our first hands-on look at dummy models...
For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Reolink to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an Argus 2 wire-free rechargeable home camera and a solar panel for charging it up outdoors.
...
Apple Music has renamed its "The A-List: Hip-Hop" playlist to "Rap Life."
Ebro Darden, global editorial head of hip-hop and R&B at Apple Music, will host a companion...
Samsung is believed to be Apple's exclusive supplier of OLED displays for iPhones, but it may have company soon.
In a research note shared with MacRumors, Barclays analysts said fellow...
1Password has restored the option for customers who originally purchased its iOS app to create a local vault during setup, after users queued up online to voice their frustrations with the fact that...
Apple is planning to open an office in highly desired location in Vancouver, Canada reports Bloomberg. The company has leased space in a 24-story office building at 400 West Georgia owned by...
Elevation Lab, known for its line of popular iPhone charging docks, today released the FamilyCharger, a multi-charging setup designed to allow you to charge all of your devices in one place.
The...
Apple today seeded the third beta of an upcoming macOS Catalina update to its public beta testing group, two weeks after seeding the second public beta and a day after seeding the fourth developer...
